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Platfform

We work with people who are experiencing challenges with their mental health, and with communities who want to create a greater sense of connection, ownership and wellbeing in the places that they live.

About Platfform


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We’re driven by the belief that a strengths based approach is the foundation to sustainable wellbeing for everyone. We do not believe that people or communities are “broken” or in need of fixing.

Our work takes a trauma informed approach to understanding mental health and emotional distress, and we see the mental health, and wider health, social care and public sector systems as no longer fit for purpose. Based on illness and deficit models, they deny people the hope and agency to heal.

As part of a growing social movement, we’re working towards a fundamental shift in the way that public services are provided, so that they support people towards sustainable wellbeing and the life of their choice.

Our vision is sustainable wellbeing for all. For this to become a reality, we need deep-rooted system change in how we understand and respond to emotional distress.

We work with over 6,000 people each year who are facing difficult mental health challenges. Our approach is based on understanding each person’s individual needs and backgrounds, and the personal strengths and abilities they can use to move themselves forwards.

We want to continue this work, but we also want to collaborate with other organisations to challenge systems that rely on a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach, and to question how we as a society understand and work with mental health.

Whatever donation you can afford, it will always support our projects and the people we work with. Together, we can start making sustainable wellbeing for everyone a reality.

Your Impact

Our projects focus on two broad areas; Crisis Prevention & Home and Life, Work & Wellbeing.

£15

Could provide a Welcome Pack, helping someone entering supported housing feel safe and secure.

£25

Could fund a 1-2-1 counselling session for someone who needs to talk.

£50

Could help our housing projects provide someone with the essentials in their new home.